- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden spear with barbed head, the last set of barbs being reversed. The tip is socketed to take a ?bone point, now missing.
- Long description
- Wooden spear with barbed head, the last set of barbs being reversed. The tip is socketed to take a ?bone point, now missing. The wood is stained with a black coloured pigment. [AB [OPS move] 25/6/2018]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1986
- Date collected
- By 1986
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1986
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Socketed, Process Carved, Process Stained
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 28 mm, Length: max 2257 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1986.10.19
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